Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002 Douro loamy soil nuances

loamy soil nuances

but that's not the main attraction here

Background notes of oak frame a highly expressive nose that offers up scents of violets

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

This is a champagne made for tenderness and pleasure

Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002 Douro loamy soil nuancesThe 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard is a wonderful wine on its own merit, but by no means is it as impressive as the other three efforts from Ann Colgin and her husband, Joe Wender. This wine has an opaque plum ruby color, a scent of unsmoked, high class tobacco, underbrush, spice box, black currants, chocolate and espresso. It is seriously endowed, elegant, and again, fully mature, but without the nobility, complexity and sheer class of